Governor Khalil al-Khuzani, seeking to extend Mahdist…

October 1888 CE

Governor Khalil al-Khuzani, seeking to extend Mahdist control over what is now southwestern Ethiopia, is routed in the Battle of Guté Dili on October 14 by an alliance of Shewan forces, under Ras Gobana Dacche and Moroda Bekere, ruler of Leqa Naqamte, near Nejo in the modern Mirab Welega Zone of the Oromia Region of Ethiopia.

Only Khalil and Muhammad Hassan of Fadasi, who is leading the Bela Shangul contingent, with a small group of Ansar and Berta soldiers, are able to successfully flee the battlefield.

This engagement represents the high water mark of Mahdist activity in what is now southwestern Ethiopia.

Despite raids over the next two years, local rulers west of Lega Naqamte, such as 'Abd ar-Rahman Khojali of Qabesh, will stop paying tribute to Omdurman (the Mahdist capital) and ignore summons to present themselves there.

Further, Ras Gobana's master (then) king Menelik II of Shewa will be able to continue to extending his influence into the area south of the Abay River, which follows Menelik and Gobena's defeat of the Gojjame army six years earlier in the Battle of Embabo.

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Nejo West Wallaga Zone (West) Wallaga Oromia Zone Ethiopia View →

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